11-10-2008, 03:29 PM
To be fair, you do live in the ghetto bro. I lived in Hunter's Ridge in the building right next to you and my old WRX was keyed on every quarter panel one night. There are always drunk haters in college, that's just how it is. I've visited my brother and partied with him a couple of times since he's been there and it seems like the same old JMU, it's just getting bigger... and as the school gets bigger you're going to mathematically have the chance to enroll more retards.
I ended up parking my nice car in VA and driving a beater while I was at school. It's nice to not have to worry about your car while you're down there. The other option like you said is to move to a nicer part of town (anyone remember how I used to park my STi at Aaron Graham's parents' house every time I would visit??), but even then your car is gonna be at risk every time you drive it to campus.
I think you're right in being frustrated but it really isn't THAT much different since when I went there. As far as building repairs that's shitty, but I don't blame the landlords... think about how many times their properties get wrecked over and over again by college kids. There's probably only a handful of students who don't trash their college apartments at JMU. Can you imagine being a landlord at Ashby?? hahah
My old landlords at JMU LOVED my roommate and I because we actually kept the place really neat and clean. We did have some parties there but we always took care of the place. They liked us so much that they came in and installed real hardwood flooring in our kitchen and living area for us hahah. There was some shit wrong with our place too but we just asked nicely and they fixed it. Make a big stink about the stuff that is wrong ... the squeaky wheel gets the grease so they say.
I ended up parking my nice car in VA and driving a beater while I was at school. It's nice to not have to worry about your car while you're down there. The other option like you said is to move to a nicer part of town (anyone remember how I used to park my STi at Aaron Graham's parents' house every time I would visit??), but even then your car is gonna be at risk every time you drive it to campus.
I think you're right in being frustrated but it really isn't THAT much different since when I went there. As far as building repairs that's shitty, but I don't blame the landlords... think about how many times their properties get wrecked over and over again by college kids. There's probably only a handful of students who don't trash their college apartments at JMU. Can you imagine being a landlord at Ashby?? hahah
My old landlords at JMU LOVED my roommate and I because we actually kept the place really neat and clean. We did have some parties there but we always took care of the place. They liked us so much that they came in and installed real hardwood flooring in our kitchen and living area for us hahah. There was some shit wrong with our place too but we just asked nicely and they fixed it. Make a big stink about the stuff that is wrong ... the squeaky wheel gets the grease so they say.
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Past: 2016 GMC Canyon All Terrain Crew Cab / 2010 Jaguar XFR / 2012 Acura RDX AWD Tech / 2008 Cadillac CTS / 2007 Acura TL-S / 1966 5.0 HO Mustang Coupe
2001 Lexus IS300 / 2004 2.8L big turbo WRX STI / 2004 Subaru WRX / A couple of old trucks